Month: April 2018
Teague has shown more of an interest in soccer this year than ever before. Then he gets on the field and is fascinated by the game and the ball – but he almost wants to watch the game more than participate. We have found that all this makes him a pretty awesome goalie. He somehow knows where to be when and can indulge his love of watching more than being in the thick of the chaos.
We have had the craziest schedule this spring. There are definitely too many activities on our plate, but we’ve managed to get everyone where they needed to be at the appropriate time. (Everyone is not always fed and happy.) Yesterday I had just enough time between two activities to run into the grocery and pick up what I needed for dinner. I pulled into the grocery store parking lot – exactly 3 minutes away from our previous location. I turned around and realized three of my four passengers had fallen asleep.
Then the question was whether I let everyone have a short nap or I woke everyone up so that we had what we needed for dinner. Decisions are the worst!
These days I am always running late or just barely making it on time. I rarely have time for unexpected delays – such as getting to my car only to realize that Kaitlyn’s seat (not her carseat – the actual seat) wasn’t in the car. We had taken it out last night to move something and hadn’t put it back in. It wasn’t the best solution but Kaitlyn got her first ride in a booster seat today.
Kaitlyn likes things a certain way (wonder who she gets that from?). In the mornings she wants her robe and her slippers – especially if I am wearing mine. (Just to be clear, I don’t have pink bunny slippers.) The last few mornings she has also come downstairs with the tiniest purse you have ever seen on her wrist. I can’t believe she can find it every morning, but there it is.
When we were moving into the house, the movers managed to put a huge scratch in the middle of Kaitlyn’s floor. During our settlement, it was determined it couldn’t be repaired and the entire room would need to be refinished. They gave us up to 6 months to have the work completed. This gave us plenty of time to enlarge the closet in her room. The floors are large plank pine and there are significant gaps between some of the planks. In most of the rooms it isn’t an issue but in kid rooms we have found it bothersome. (Particularly in the boys’ room with little legos.) Some of the rooms downstairs have narrow strips between the large planks. Wade had discussed with the refinisher possibly filling the gaps and the man was open to the idea. Wade finally decided to do it himself. Here’s the project in pictures. First the wood putty currently filling the gaps and to be removed, then strips had to be cut to random widths, measured to length, glue applied, and then hammered into place. Easy, right? Just ask Wade. The end result was awesome!
The refinishing guys showed up and spent the next few days doing their work and now we have some gorgeous floors. I wish we could have all our floors redone! (I didn’t think to take a picture of the floors before Wade removed the wood putty, but I had another room that shows exactly what it would have looked like.)